Prolegomenon to the Millennial History of the Western Armenian World ‒ The First Phase Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries ‒ From Kingdoms to an Awakening Politics and Culture.(Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2026 - in Press). ISBN 978-1-967180-02-8

Yovhan III Ōdznets‘I Saint, Jurist and Great Master of Armenian Mesopolitan Culture and Diplomacy - Յովհան Գ. Օձնեցի ‒ Սուրբը, Կանոնագէտը եւ Մեծ Վարպետը Հայ Միջնաշխարհեան Մշակոյթի եւ Դիւանագիտութեան (Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2025). ISBN 978-1-967180-00-4

Nersēs IV Shnorhali Saint and Diplomat and the Persistence of the People and the Church in the Western Armenian World - Ներսէս Դ. Շնորհալի Սուրբ եւ Դիւանագէտ եւ Ժողովուրդին ու Եկեղեցիին Գոյատեւումը Արեւմտեան Հայաշխարհին մէջ (Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2025). ISBN 978-1-967180-03-5

Encounters and Convergences. A Book of Ideas and Art. USA: 2023. ISBN 979-889121965-6

Islam in Armenian Literary Culture: Texts, Contexts, Dynamics. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. ISBN 978-90-429-4503-6

The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight- A Discourse / 2015 – Հայ Վիճակը Յետահայեցութեամբ և Նախահայեցութեամբ – Վերլուծում մը. Ottawa, Canada: 2015. ISBN 978-1-4951-7994-5

The Catholicosate of Cilicia - History, Mission, Treasures. Editor, Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2015.ISBN 978-9953-0-3164-4

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. 3 vols. Transaction Publishers. New Brunswick, U.S.A. & London, UK: 2011, 2012, 2013.

- Vol. III: Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islam ‒Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries. (2013) ISBN 978-1-4128-4577-9

- Vol. II: Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging Paradigms ‒ The Case of Cilicia. (2012) ISBN 978-1-4128-4782-7

- Vol. I: The Arab Period in Armīnyah.(2011) ISBN 978-1-4128-5189-3

The Armenian Catholicosate from Cilicia to Antelias − An Introduction to the Political History. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2003.

The Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle East. Editor, Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2001.

The Fāṭimid Armenians ‒ Cultural and Political Interaction in the Near East. Islamic History and Civilization Series. E.J. Brill. Leiden: 1997. ISBN 90-04-10816-5

Յովհաննէս Երզնակացիի 'Ի Տաճկաց Իմաստասիրաց'ը և Իմաստասիրական Արձակը Իսլամական Աղբիւրներուն Լոյսին Տակ [John of Erznka: 'Views from the Writings of Islamic Philosophers' and Philosophical Treatises in the Light of their Islamic Sources – Ikhwān al Ṣafā’]. Beirut: 1991.

Էջեր Արևմտահայ Մտածումէն – Ե. Տէմիրճիպաշեան, Տ. Չրաքեան-Ինտրա, Շ. Պէրպէրեան, Գ. Գավաֆեան, Դանիէլ Վարուժան [Pages of West Armenian Philosophical Thought – E. Demirjibashian, T. Chrakian-Indra, Sh. Berberian, G. Kavafian, Taniel Varujan].A.G.B.U. Beirut: 1987. (Winner of H. Uzunian Award for Best Armenian Book of 1987).

Լիբանանահայ Նկարչութիւնը Ինքնութեան Տագնապին Լոյսին Տակ [Armenian Painting in Lebanon in the Light of the Crisis of Identity]. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 1984.

Some Links

- “Nersēs IV Shnorhali: The Legacy in Political Perspective” - On the 850th anniversary of his death, Le Muséon. 1-2, 137 (2024), pp. 171-206.

- “St. Nersēs IV Shnorhali the Diplomat” [Surb Nerses IV Shnorhali Diwanagētĕ], Hask Armenological Review, XIII(2024), pp. 169-203.

- “Լոյս Տեսաւ Փրոֆ. Սեդա Պարսումեան-Տատոյեանի` Ներսէս Դ. Շնորհալի Սուրբ Եւ Դիւանագէտ Եւ Ժողովուրդին ու Եկեղեցիին Գոյատեւումը Արեւմտեան Հայաշխարհին Մէջ Հատորը.” Aztag, Յուլիս 17, 2025. https://www.aztagdaily.com/archives/654569

- “The Western Prelacy Announces Publication of New Bilingual Book on Nerses Shnorhali: Nersēs IV Shnorhali Saint and Diplomat and the Persistence of the People and the Church in the Western Armenian World ”, Los Angeles: 2025. Asbarez, July 3, 2025.

https://asbarez.com/western-prelacy-announces-publication-of-new-bilingual-book-on-nerses-shnorhali/

- “Encounters and Convergences. A Book of Ideas and Art, Seta B. Dadoyan, Դիմագրաւումեր Եւ Միաւորումներ. Գիրք Միտքերու Եւ Արուեստի, Սեդա Պ. Տատոյեան”, Aztag, Հոկտեմբեր 2, 2023. https://www.aztagdaily.com/archives/594337

- “Prof. Seta Dadoyan to Hold Lecture Series on ‘Counterpoints: Philosophy, Historiography, Art”, AAHCP (Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice) NYC - Asbarez, February 27, 2024.

https://asbarez.com/prof-seta-dadoyan-to-hold-lecture-series-on-counterpoints-philosophy-historiography-art/

- “Encounters and Convergences: Prof. Seta Dadoyan Publishes New Book”, Asbarez, September 13, 2023. https://asbarez.com/encounters-and-convergences-prof-seta-dadoyan-publishes-new-book/

- “Ի Խնդիր Մերձաւոր-Միջինարեւելեան, Այժմէական Եւ Գործօն Հայագիտութեան մը ‒ Իսլամը Հայ Գրական Մշակոյթին Մէջ. Բնագիրներ, Հիմնավայրեր, Ուժընթացք Islam In Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Louvain: Peeters, 2021) Սեդա Պ. Տատոյեան”, Aztag, Հոկտեմբեր 5, 2021. https://www.aztagdaily.com/archives/524669

- “Dadoyan Lectures on Islam and Armenians‒ The University of Michigan Armenian Studies Program hosted Professor Seta B. Dadoyan” – A well-attended lecture in the International Institute, Armenian Weekly, February 19, 2009

https://armenianweekly.com/2009/02/19/dadoyan-lectures-on-islam-and-armenians/

- “Seta Dadoyan to Discuss Islam in Armenian Literary Culture at Columbia” – New York, NY—Dr. Seta B. Dadoyan will present a lecture entitled ‘Islam in Armenian Literary Culture’ ‒ 7th to 21st Centuries, Armenian Weekly, February 24, 2020.

https://armenianweekly.com/2020/02/24/seta-dadoyan-to-discuss-islam-in-armenian-literary-culture-at-columbia/

- “Prof. Seta Dadoyan ‘In Quest of Historical Geoglyphs: Islam in Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics”, ARPA Institute, March,2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dzXS_eRtng

- “UCLA-PROMISE INSTITUTE LINK for Islam in Armenian Literary Culture”, UCLA, Nov. 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMZcPSGPbcc&t=2s

- “Պատմական Հրատարակութիւն Մը. Կիլիկիոյ Հայ Կաթողիկոսութիւնը Պատմութիւն, Գանձեր, Առաքելութիւն/The Armenian Catholicosate of Clicia. History, Treasures, Mission- Seta B. Dadoyan”, (Antelias, 2015), Aztag, Օգոստոս 26, 2016. https://www.aztagdaily.com/archives/311680

- “Dadoyan to Speak at CUNY on The Armenians in Medieval Islamic World”, Armenian Weekly, Thursday, October 13, 2011

https://armenianweekly.com/2011/10/11/dadoyan-to-speak-at-cuny-on-armenians-in-medieval-islamic-world/

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- “Prof. Seta Dadoyan on 'The Armenians and Islam' ”, Ararat Eskijian Museum, LA- April 22/2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSf_LIAE0CM

-"Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan to Speak at Middle East & Middle Eastern American Center, City University of New York". Armenian Reporter. 18 March 2006.

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Book Covers & Contents

Prolegomenon to the Millennial History of the Western Armenian World ‒The First Phase Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries ‒ From Kingdoms to an Awakening Politics and Culture. (Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2026.

ISBN 978-1-967180-02-8

Preface. A Critique of the ‘Center-Periphery’ Paradigm – The ‘Western and Eastern Armenian Worlds’ Historiographic Model

Part One. Formation of the Western Armenian World

Chapter I. Beginnings in the Earlier Periods

Chapter II. The Armenian Intermezzo

Part Two. The Dynastic Triangle or the Second Age of Kingdoms ‒ Twelfth to Fourteenth centuries

Chapter I. The Dynastic Triangle

Chapter II. Cilicia. The first Body Politic in the Western Armenian World

1. Four points as an introduction to the political history of Cilicia

2. Factors in the making of Armenian Cilicia

3.The Cilician Principality between the Crusaders and the Seljuk Turks

4. A mesopolitan issue: Two contradictory projects for Armenian Cilicia

a. Prince T‘oros II and the project of a Latin-Armenian Cilicia

b. Prince Mleh and the project of a Zankī-Armenian Cilicia

5. Cilicia and the Ayyūbids

6. Fall of Jerusalem and the famous Oath of Ṣalāḥ ed-Dīn to the Armenians and Christians

7. The Aftermath and the Project of the Cilician Kingdom

8. The Kingdom and the Church between Latins, Greeks, Ayyūbids, Mongols, Mamlūks

a. Ecumenism and politics

b. King Lewon I: Realpolitik, the Cilician Spirit and the Kingdom

c.The Latin-Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia between Franks and Muslims

9. The Mongol Period ‒ Hetum I and the Mamlūks

10. The Mamlūks

11. The Fall of the Kingdom

Chapter III. The Zak‘arians at Ani

Chapter IV. The City State of Erznka/Erzinjān

Part Three. Problematics of Sovereignty, Orthodoxy and Identity ‒ State and Church in Cilicia

Chapter I. The Church from the fall of Ani in 1045 to Lewon II/I

Chapter II. State and Church ‒ Monarchs and Catholicoi

Chapter III. A different and novel perspective on the ‘1441 Movement’

A List of the Cilician Princes/Kings and their Contemporary Catholicoi

Part Four. A Mesopolitan Culture in the Western Armenian World ‒ The Path to the Awakening

Chapter I. Beginnings in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

Chapter II. Grigor Narekats‘I and Grigor Magistros as Forerunners in liberal thought

Grigor Pahlawuni Magistros and secularization of knowledge

Chapter III. Aspects of the Theological-Philosophical legacy of the Silver Age in the Western Armenian World

Chapter IV. Medieval Cosmopolitanism in the

Western Armenian World – The Case of Erznka

Chapter V. Poetry as Bridge to an Early Awakening

Conclusions

Bibliography

Yovhan III Ōdznets‘I Saint, Jurist and Great Master of Armenian Mesopolitan Culture and Diplomacy/ Յովհան Գ. Օձնեցի ‒ Սուրբը, Կանոնագէտը եւ Մեծ Վարպետը Հայ Միջնաշխարհեան Մշակոյթի եւ Դիւանագիտութեան (Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2025).

ISBN 978-1-967180-00-4